“It’s just not a conversation I wanted,” the actor explained.
“I had it all the way through Bond anyway.”
“It would look reactionary, like I was showing my range.”
Daniel Craig and Drew Starkey in ‘Queer’.
As William, Craig is drug-addled, melancholic, and flamboyant.
“I was becoming a star, whatever that means, and people wanted me in their films.
“They left me empty,” he recalled to theTimes.
Daniel Craig in 2006’s ‘Casino Royale’.Columbia Pictures
“Then, bottom line, I got paid.
I was so exhausted at the end of a Bond it would take me six months to recover emotionally.
“It’s just not a conversation I wanted.
“Could there be this Bond?
So anything that is going to inflame that conversation?
No life’s too short.”
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“Sexuality is the least interesting thing to me in this film,” he said.
“I mean, we all f—.
There’s a headline.
‘We all f—!’
Let’s be grown-ups.”
Craig expressed a similar sentimentwhile discussingQueerwithEntertainment Weeklyahead of its November release.
“We’re all grown-ups.
This is what people do.
That’s what we wanted to get across.
I think that’s why they work.”
“I wouldn’t have done it,” he toldThe New York Times.
Now he’s far less concerned about how the role will be perceived.
“Will the audience respond?”
he pondered in the same interview.
